Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-15

he received the plaudits of the ladies pres- ent"
 Hale seems to have had an irresistible charm for everybody. He was a favorite in society, he had the manner and the qualities that made him a leader among men and gained him the admiration of women. He was always intelligently busy, and had the Yankee ingenuity-he "could do anything but spin" he used to say to the girls of Gov entry laughing over the spinning wheel. There is a universal testimony to his alert intelligence, vivacity, manliness, sincerity and winningness.
 It is probable that while still an under graduate at Yale he was engaged to Alice Adams, who was born in Canterbury, young lady distinguished then as she was after wards for her great beauty and intelligence. After Hales death she married MT. Eleazer Ripley and was left widow at eighteen with one child, who survived it's father only year. She married the second time William Lawrence, esq.,, of Hartford, and died in this city greatly respected and admired in 1845, aged eighty eight. It is a touching note of the hold of the memory of her young lover upon her admiration that her last words murmured as life was ebbing were 'sWrite to Nathan"
 Hale's short career in the American army must not detain us. After his flying visit as a volunteer to Cambridge he returned to New London, joined a company with the rank of lieutenant, participated in the siege of Boston, was commissioned a captain in the Nineteenth Connecticut regiment in Jan uary, 1776, performed the duties of sol dier with vigilance, bravery and patience, and was noted for the discipline of his com pauy. In the last dispiriting days of 1775, when the terms of his men had expired, he offered to give them his months pay if they would remain month longer. He accompa- nied the army to New York and shared it's fortunes in that discouraging spring and summer. Shortly after his arrival Captain Hale distinguished himself by the brilliant exploit of cutting out British sloop, laden with provisions, from under the guns of the man. of-war Asia, sixty-four, lying in the East river, and bringing her triumphantly into Coenties Slip. During the summer he suffered a severe illness.
 The daring deeds, the glorious death of the martyr spy were then told by the orator. In closing MT. Warner said:
 My friends, we are not honoring to-day lad who appeared for @ moment in heroic light, but one of the most worthy of the citi- zens of Connecticut, who has by his loft character long honored her, wherever patriot manhood is respected. We have had many heroes many youths of promise and men of note, whose names are our great and our only enduring riches, but no one of them all better illustrated, short as was his career, tine vir- tues we desire for all our sons. We have long delayed tnls trloute to ms character ana his deeds, but in spite of our neglect, his fame has grown year by year, as war and politics have taught us what is really admirable ill a human being, and we are now sure that we are not erecting memorial to an ephemeral reputation.
 It is fit that it should stand here, ,one of the chief distinctions of our splendid Capitol; here in the political center of the State here in the city where first in all the world was proclaimed and put into political charter the fundamental idea of democracy, that